DUNDEE EVENING TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER 1905
WELL-KNOWN DUNFERMLINE MAN DEAD
A well-known personage belonging to Cairneyhill, near Dunfermline, name Campbell Drysdale, retired coal agent, died suddenly last night.
During the day he had as usual been in Dunfermline, and on returning to his home in Cairneyhill he was seized with a shock and expired.
Deceased was well-known in Dunfermline and district.
DUNDEE COURIER, FRIDAY 19TH JANUARY 1940
BOY KILLED ON FIFE ROAD
A boy was killed in a road accident near Dunfermline yesterday.
The boy was 13-year-old James Murdoch McDonald, only son of John McDonald, Main Street, Cairneyhill. The accident occurred at the overhead railway bridge on the Torryburn-Newmills road.
The lad was crossing the road, when he was knocked down by a bus. He was taken to a first-aid post nearby, but was found to be dead.
James’s parents formerly resided at Bankhead, Cairneyhill.
DUNDEE COURIER, SATURDAY 23RD JUNE 1945
FIFE CHILD KILLED BY MOTOR VAN
Robert Turner Beattie, the two-year-old child of George Beattie, railway worker, Station House, Cairneyhill, was instantaneously killed by being knocked down and run over by a motor van in Station Road, Cairneyhill, yesterday afternoon.
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